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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Mind the (Skills) Gap

Harvard Business Review

People across industries and job segments need hyper-specialized skills to thrive in this environment, and both white and blue-collar jobs will need to innovate to remain relevant. Fortunately, new technologies and services deliver education flexibly, giving America new opportunities with "Education 2.0."

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Vision before action.

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The Key to Change Is Middle Management

Harvard Business Review

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma.